Iran has been keen to aid the Iraqi government, but the nation's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian insists Iran won't send ground troops to directly intervene, and will limit their involvement to arms shipments and the current advisory operations.

Which sounds remarkably familiar to what the US is doing itself, suggesting both nations are in a race toward back door involvement in the war, while both assuring the public they won't be doing so.